Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One ought, every day at least,to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,and, if it were possible,… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future. (Foreword by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
“What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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